"I believe poetry has very little to do…" — Nick Flynn
"I believe poetry has very little to do with memory."
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41 Quotes by Nick Flynn
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Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him…
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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are…
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Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel…
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Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever…
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it…
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If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside…
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Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and…
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On a good day I write, all day.
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That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
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When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
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Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of…
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